Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-02-25
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EDITOR BLADE AS you learned from
your correspondent, the gas well, to the
regret Of everybody in Perrysburg, proves
failure. / am one OF ihuse who be-
lieve that our state geologl-t, while hav
ing no power TO look farther into mill
stone than the rest OF the world, Is
abundnnlly competent 10 keep record Of
wells bored, and to classify the facts 70 M
to arrive at an intelligent conclusion.
This Ia the B,conian method uf reason =
ing, aud to II the world owes much OF It's
present advance in real knowledge. The
conclusion Of Prof. Orton, from such col
lection OF facts, is this: That when the
Trenton limestone, In which the gas nnd
oil OF the Findlay and Lima districts are
found, lies 500 feet below yea level, oil
aud gns are not found in paying quantities.
The proper consideration OF this fnct by
the towns north Of Bowling Green would
save good many thousands Of dollars.
AT Perrysburg the Trenton Limestone
wac found at the actual depth OF 1904 feet
which Is some 200 feet deeper than its
depth in the paying wells That is, il is
about 200 feet below the sea level. When
that depth was reached. aud the conclusion
Of Prof. orion verified, not anotlor foot
need to have been drilled, or ought to have
been drilled and yet we did drill nearly
700 feet further.
Al Wauseon they drilled 2.l00 feet be-
fore reaching the Trenton limestone. They
might have stopped at 800 and been just
as we'll tf.
You at Toledo, understand, find the
Trenton about 900 feet below the sea level
So it seems that we live on the sides of a
vast mountain Of Limestone, in the upper
part and in the outer crust OF which are gas
and oil, while the lower part--the foot of
the muuntain-where we are, the oil and
gas only exist in small quantities, too
small TO be OF value.
Why, then, should any more drilling he
done OH the lower side of the mountain. or
at it's foot? 1t has been known for over y
year that il WAS necessary to go higher up
the mountain, even at Bowling Green, in
order TO get strong paying wells, and ac-
corndingly the Bowling Green Gas Co.
went up The sde Of the mountain, first
two miles and then three miles, TO 6nd
their strongest well.
With these facts there is no paltering,
however good we might lie to set them
aside. And they do not indicate Point
Place MS the location for paying gas well,
nor To Waterville. They have gas at
Waterville in the oil wells bored 90 years
ago. Oh and gas rise to the surface all
along the river. But this oil and gas come
undoubtedly from the Huron shale,ln which
both are found ut dept of some 500 feet.
The gas from this shale in the Perrysburg
well burned well while il lasted, and few
galonc of oil were collected from the
gatherings OF two days drps. But that
was ille end Of the gas and oil.
/ call altenison to these facts. in order to
pnt the people around Toledo on their
guard against throwing away more money
than is necessary 10 establish the actual
depth of the gas-bearng rock, which
should be reached at n good deal lees than
300 feet III order TO strike the paying sas.
bearing belt of the mountain.
Perrysburg, Feb, 3. g. A. ADAMS.